It seems that the Anglican Church in Melbourne is getting a little desperate for money to complete the refurb on St Paul’s Cathedral in the city because while the building is poorly located as a church, it is a GREAT place for advertising.
According to The Age newspaper, it was a close vote that kept the scaffolding on the partially renovated spire from being used as a billboard for the soon to be released blockbuster – King Kong.
Classy!
The interesting thing is that this seems to be indicative of a more progressive and realistic view pf the world being held by the Anglican Church in Australia. In the recent industrial relations debate, I had the disturbing experience of finding myself; my left leading, socially progressive and slightly socialist gay self; agreeing with the Anglican Archbishop of Australia.
Spooky.
The Archbishop’s position, lets call his Arch, since it sounds more cuddly. Arch’s position on the new IR reform is that by reducing the minimum employment requirements and removing some workers (i.e. those that are not irreplaceable), Australian parents will need to work harder to keep their jobs and then have less time for their families. He made the point that there is more to life than work and more to a strong Australian society – and funny, I couldn’t agree more.
I have worked 100 hour weeks, in high pressure corporate roles, earning a LOT of money and I have to say it didn’t make me happy. There is more to life than work and if we want to make this country not just strong, but happy, may we need to focus on THAT as well as the economy.
I listened to an interesting radio show a little while ago – and ok that tells you right there that I had WAY too much time on my hands – any how, the radio show was about
happiness, and they discussed a concept of GNH – Gross National Happiness, or the amount of happiness there is in a country or region. How happy the population is and how much they enjoy their lives.
Maybe this is the sort of thing we need to be focusing on, because I tell you, even when I am poor if I am happy, I don’t care that I am
poor.
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